Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 06:31:25PM -0400, Ron Wilson wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Should I take it at this point that --incremental is deprecated and should not be used or expected to be present in future Fossil versions? So far, I have seen

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-12 Thread Ron Wilson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: I'm stuck in kind of a no-win situation with this, then. It's not really appropriate to log a bug in an issue tracker without knowing it's a bug, but nobody will tell me if it's a bug, how I should judge whether it's a

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-10 Thread Ron Wilson
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Should I take it at this point that --incremental is deprecated and should not be used or expected to be present in future Fossil versions? So far, I have seen no responses that specifically addressed whether the behavior I

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-08 Thread Chad Perrin
Should I take it at this point that --incremental is deprecated and should not be used or expected to be present in future Fossil versions? So far, I have seen no responses that specifically addressed whether the behavior I expected from it was the intended behavior, whether anyone else might

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-05 Thread Ron Wilson
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: I'm talking about a distributed team, where not everyone has SSH shell access or the ability to directly change anything on the filesystem, but they all have commit access to a specific set of repositories. This means, for

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 07:25:31PM -0500, Ron Wilson wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: I'm talking about a distributed team, where not everyone has SSH shell access or the ability to directly change anything on the filesystem, but they all have

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Richard Hipp
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Trying to fork/import from Git is kinda problematic. I started by creating a new project on a server: $ fossil init projectname.fossil I then cloned locally: $ fossil clone u...@uri.for/projectname/index.cgi

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread James Turner
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:47:31PM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Trying to fork/import from Git is kinda problematic. I started by creating a new project on a server: $ fossil init projectname.fossil I then

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:47:31PM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Trying to fork/import from Git is kinda problematic. I started by creating a new project on a server: $ fossil init projectname.fossil I then

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Richard Hipp
I did this: mkdir nvi cd nvi git clone git://repo.or.cz/nvi.git cd nvi git fast-export --all | fossil import ../nvi.fossil cd .. mkdir n2 cd n2 fossil open ../nvi.fossil The result was a directory full of files. And I could do fossil ui to see the complete development timeline, and so forth.

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread James Turner
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:55:36PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:47:31PM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Trying to fork/import from Git is kinda problematic. I started by creating a new project on a

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Richard Hipp
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:02 PM, James Turner ja...@calminferno.net wrote: Bah incremental requires the repo to exist. Without incremental the import is successful and trunk is set correctly. I completely overlooked the --incremental flag in the original post. Sorry... -- D. Richard Hipp

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:01:36PM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: I did this: mkdir nvi cd nvi git clone git://repo.or.cz/nvi.git cd nvi git fast-export --all | fossil import ../nvi.fossil cd .. mkdir n2 cd n2 fossil open ../nvi.fossil The result was a directory full of files. And I

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
The following is based on the fact that I do not know whether there are any undocumented or poorly-documented features that would provide the described functionality, or whether I have simply failed to see what was right in front of my face after spending a fair bit of time staring at Fossil's

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Stephan Beal
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Is there any chance that Fossil will get a manpage or two at some point? Perhaps this suffices (or provides a start): http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/help The /help page can also be accessed locally via (fossil ui). --

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:49:26PM -0500, James Turner wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:47:31PM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Trying to fork/import from Git is kinda problematic. I started by creating a new project on

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 11:16:07PM +0100, Stephan Beal wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Is there any chance that Fossil will get a manpage or two at some point? Perhaps this suffices (or provides a start):

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Ron Wilson
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Trying to fork/import from Git is kinda problematic. I started by creating a new project on a server: $ fossil init projectname.fossil I then cloned locally: $ fossil clone u...@uri.for/projectname/index.cgi

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Ron Wilson
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Ron Wilson ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: Alternately, try: $ git fast-export --all |ssh user@server fossil import\ --git --incremental /path/to/projectname.fossil Oops. Don't use the --incremental for the initial import.

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 07:12:54PM -0500, Ron Wilson wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Trying to fork/import from Git is kinda problematic. I started by creating a new project on a server: $ fossil init projectname.fossil I then cloned

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Ron Wilson
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Both of those solutions would surely work in this case (as long as the incremental option works on the server, but not in cases where the same would be done by someone with commit access but no SSH filesystem/shell access

Re: [fossil-users] importing/forking from Git

2014-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 01:40:49AM -0500, Ron Wilson wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote: Both of those solutions would surely work in this case (as long as the incremental option works on the server, but not in cases where the same would be done by